N the. Erosusp tit. S m fe is h a troop csee going to be okay. When our trooper goes home at amazingly, we are told hes the end of the day, we breathe a sigh of relief. Thats the goal when they come in and at the end of the day, thats our hope that they go home to their family. Reporter the corporal is married with children and when he goes back to work, once he recovers, hes going to be onned aminute sf ae aed aed aminute sfwraive leave. Taking you back to the scene where it all started. This is where it happened, magnolia, kent county. What did you find, doug . Reporter it was an arrest warrant that brought delaware state troopers to this area in the first place in search of suspect dennis hicks. When delaware state troopers came looking for a 29yearold suspect who allegedly tried to choke his girlfriend, they found his black honda and police say he opened fire. I heard a popping noise. It sounded like a nail gun. Gunshots outside. He went to his window. It went through his wall. Reporter neighbors say the gun battle lasted just a few seconds. I saw the cop cars out there. I could see what looked like somebody in the street. Reporter neighbors say the gun battle came after a day of threats that forced the couples two children to flee. They were hiding at the house because her boyfriend had pulled a knife on her. Reporter we are working on more of that angle of the story. Well have Additional Information coming up tonight at 5 00. Live in magnolia, delaware, im doug shimell, nbc 10 news. New video of a robbery caught on camera. You will see this woman here, she was attacked as she walked into her apartment sunday night. He took her jewelry but that wasnt enough. Nbc 10s keith jones has been looking over the video in our digital operations center. What did you see . Reporter he has her call her friend so he can rob her, too. Look at this video. Back to the surveillance. You can see the victim being followed by a man Police Describe as muscular and in his 20s. She gets out of her car. When she reaches her apartment, the attacker moves in struggling with her and get her jewelry. He forces her into her car where she circles the block. Thats when she makes the call to her friend. Her friend shows up and hands over cash to the robber. He drives off with the woman letting her off a few blocks away. Thankfully, no one has seriously hurt. A scary situation for both of the victims. If you recognize the suspect in this video, Philadelphia Police want to hear from you. Live in the digital operations center, keith jones, nbc 10 news. Community members in philadelphias Rittenhouse Square will talk neighborhood safety this evening. They will meet to talk about preventing violence against women after a young doctor was raped in her home. Tonights meeting is scheduled for 7 00, the tenth presbyterian church. We will have the opportunity to learn selfdefense and learn more about the budding system. This comes less than a week after a young woman was followed home. Police say Milton Garcia tailed the victim and then forced his way into her apartment where he allegedly raped her multiple times saturday morning. Investigators say they tracked him down using pings from the victims stolen phone. He was arrested, charged on monday. Police now trying to determine if he also exposed himself to a second woman an hour before that rape. A man and woman are in Critical Condition right now after someone stabbed them several times in philadelphias olney section. Police are trying to figure out who did it. They believe it happened in front of this home this morning. A 71yearold woman was stabbed as many as 15 times from her chest to her toes. Her 74yearold male roommate was stabbed twice. They found a knife steps away from the front door. Thats where a neighbor found the woman. She was right in front of her door crawling to the other side. She just kept saying, call the emergency room, call the emergency room. Police removed more than a dozen cats and kittens from the home. According to investigators thats part of the problem. They say this is an extreme case of hording as well. New information in acase of alleged sex abuse involving a music teacher in chester county. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing. He is accused of sexually assaulting three students and showing nude pictures to three others. He taught them at the Malvern School of music. He also gave private lessons at his home. A peco worker is expected to be okay. Sky force 10 over east 21st street. Thats not clear what happened to the man. He was taken to the hospital. Electric service in the area was not affected. The future of schools in the Council Rock District up in the air today. The school board heard from members of its planning committee. They talked about closing Rolling Hills and wrightstown elementary and dropping middle schools from three to two. Holland middle school would expand whield richboro would close. Rising costs and aging infrastructure are part of the problem. The Walmart Foundation is giving 5 million to the partners for breakfast in the classroom initiative. It will start this many coulding school year. Districts will be selected based on the number of students who qualify for free or reduced meals. College material, success for dozens of former high school dropouts. They have that long awaited diploma. Camden countys great way college gave out the did i mroe maz. They get a second chance. They are between 16 and 20 and they now want to try to get a college education. Schools out in camden. The final dismissal of the school year. Everyone is ready here for summer vacation. In philadelphia the nfl has agreed to remove a 675 million cap on concussion related damages. The change was made after a judge in philadelphia questioned whether a proposed settlement provided enough money to cover retired players. Some accuse the league of fraud for its handling the concussions. Now that same sex marriage is legal, one county is changing the rules for benefits. Allegheny county, where pittsburgh is located, is cutting off benefits to samesex partners if theyre not married. The county has 11 employees with samesex partners getting benefits. Those will be terminated august 1 and those people can apply for the Affordable Care act. In delaware lawmakers are closer to approving a bailout for casinos. They are struggling because of competition from neighboring states, also fees paid to the state. The bill calls for the state to help pay vendor costs for slot machines. The state senate is voting on that today. It will be easier to park if you dont have cash. Council members voted today to expand the citys Smart Parking program. It bill buy 425 new parking meters that accept debit and credit cards. The first new meters could be up and running by september. Eventually, they plan to add a smart phone payment option. Now to the crisis in iraq. 13 people died today when a suicide bomber blew himself up south of baghdad. No one claimed responsibility here. This is tack was similar to those from sunni militants. Us appeals are not swaying malali. In an address today, he said those changes would amount to a coup against the constitution. This was his first Public Statement since obama challenged him to open his government to other factions or risk a sectarian civil war. If there is a war, these men say theyre ready to fight. Hundreds of volunteers gathered in baghdad today. They are being vetted and under going medical tests. Members of isis are already in control of the border crossings with syria and jordan. They vow to march toward baghdad and two holy shiite cities. John boehner is threatening to sue president obama. Boehner claims the president is exceeding his authority in an effort to circumventing congress. Obama issues orders on immigration, the federal minimum pay and pay discrimination. Republicans upset with numerous changes to his healthcare law. Boehner says his suit will be a legal chaing challenge not an impeachment. The constitution makes it clear that a president s job is to execute the laws. In my view, the president has not faithfully executed the laws. He did not say exactly when he will file his lawsuit. New jersey governor Chris Christy vows to veto a bill that would raise taxes. Democrats say its needed to fill the gaping hole in the state budget. Chris christy said no way. He made that promise today. Break down the tax trouble. Reporter the governor did make a stop here to the atlantic avenue elementary school. Its an affluent neighborhood. On the mind of the governor as well as the people here is how the state is going to pay for those pension benefits. General motors went brufrng because of their pension system. Dont think that cant happen in the public sector. Reporter strong words to the governor. They are in the midst of a tugofwar over how Many Employers and employees benefit to their pension funds. An agreement was reached in 2011. The governor says more needs to be done. Now we need to bring the premiums down. The only way to do that is to constrict the benefits. Reporter opponents inside and outside say the governor is reneging on his 2011 agreement. They find some sort of agreement that can be dealt with that were not raising taxes but were not penalizing people. Reporter this is something to look forward in the coming weeks, thats because the pension or the dems in the house are proposing tax increases. Usa mentioned before the governor says he will veto any kind of legislation like that. New jersey, now poe lass ski problems. An investigation into how it paid for a repair of a new jersey bridge. The investigation focuses on whether funding for the polaski bridge was misrepresented. The security and Exchange Commission as well as the manhattan d. A. s Office Investigating this. No comment from the governor. Breaking news right now in northeast philadelphia. Sky force 10, what you are looking at here is an accident involving a church van. We understand there are minor injuries as a result of this accident. Looks like as we look at these pictures live now from sky force 10, several vehicles involved. This is at the intersection of roosevelt boulevard and woodward. A church van involved is. Not sure how many people were in the van. We understand they have minor injuries. We will continue to get more information on this and bring you an update if we get more information. The humidity way up today as we were telling you. As a result, were seeing showers and even thunderstorms building in parts of the area. Localized flooding, we have seen some of that in western pennsylvania and now central pennsylvania. Eventually, some of that moisture headed this way. The comfort, thats going to be returning before too long. Look at the sky here. Were looking at center city up to the north and down to the south. You can see the rain right there. The ones around the philadelphia area are more typical rain showers. We have more Severe Weather back to the west. 86, reporting lightning in philadelphia. 55 humidity, the wind south at 14 miles an hour. You have lightning reported at the airport and at least 30minute delays right now. 86 there. 89 in allentown. 76 in reading. Cooler down toward the jersey shore are the sea breeze and the sojerly wind coming off the ocean. That will continue. You can see the showers and around the philadelphia area. Some of those are heavy. We have a couple of spots in northern salem county, this cell is moving up toward philadelphia and the airport. This other one is near berwyn and heading northeast. Thats briefly heavy rain there. Thats not the main area. That is now in central pennsylvania. You can see this area of red. Theres a lot of lightning with that. They have had reports of an inch of rain in 15 minutes. Thats a rate of four inches an hour. Thats enough to cause flooding. You can get flooding in 15 minutes, which is what they have gotten in State College. Were watching this back to the west and see what happens as we go into the evening hours. Some of the showers are way ahead of that line. Its 7 00, 8 00 tonight, the main area coming in after 8 00, 9 00, 10 00. There it is it right on top of the i95 corridor. Once that gets here, again, its got tremendous moisture with it. Its not a widespread flood threat. We dont have a flood watch. But there are localized flooding threats with cells like this. Then things quiet down. But they dont completely dry out. We may not completely dry out for a little while tomorrow. Not as humid as today and we dont have the hefr have i rain threat. Then on friday, we may have an we may have a disturbance coming through. Watch what happens as we go into friday afternoon. We do have some more threats of showers before the week is out. Nothing like what the threat is tonight. I think thats the main issue. Showers likely for much of the area by the time the night is over with. Dont leave the windows open tonight. 72 for a low in philadelphia. 68 north and west. Then during the day tomorrow, we could see a shower even in the morning hours. The clouds are early. Giving way to sunshine. The temperature is going to go up near 90. Not quite as humid as today. The sevenday forecast, temperatures down on friday. Lower humidity on friday. Chances of showers. Then the humidity goes down more just in time for the weekend. So we get the storms in the middle of the week and nice weather on the weekend. Does that sound familiar . It happens again. Then we go into next week and as soon as the weekend is over, it starts getting hot and humid and stormy. What a pattern. Summer is here. You know what that means . More time outside and in the sun. A lot of people hitting the beach. One south Jersey Community is urging people to be smart. They are offering screenings throughout the summer to see how sun affects your skin to find out where and when you can get a scan log on to our website. Buy that sunscreen often. Witnesses explain how they didnt have to speak english to get their Traffic Court tickets to disappear. I will have that story coming up at 4 30. The report card is in. The grades arent good. How pension received mostly cs and ds when it came to the conditions of roads, bridges and other infrastructure in the state. Your private property subject to search. The Supreme Court ruling that affects everyone with a cell phone. Sky force 10 monitoring the skies. Look at the storm clouds out there. Of course, we are on top of the story. The continuing changing weather condition. We will have the latest from the First Alert Weather Team when we continue on nbc 10 news today at 4 00. I hate to ask but do you carry a lot of germs. Your cell phone may have the answer. Researchers sampled germs on participants hands and on their touch scenes. They found germs on the phone resembled those on peoples hands and women were more closely connected to their hands from a germs perspective. We have showers and thunderstorms in the philadelphia area now. More back in central pennsylvania that will be moving this way before the night is out. The timing on those storms and the rest of the sevenday coming up. Give me one reason why i should believe youve really changed. Huh . Okay. Uh, 2hour service windows. Give me another one. Uh, our on time all the time guarantee. One more. Night and weekend appointments. You guys have really changed. Who am i gonna badmouth at parties now . I guess my cousin. Hes so pale. Sky force 10 over breaking news here. This is on i95. This is northbound near woodhaven road exit. This car overturned in this lane. The other two lanes able to get by. This is an accident on northbound i95 heading out of the city north near the woodhaven road exit. You see the backup. We will stay on this story. We dont know the injuries of the person involved in that overturned car. As you can see at this time of day, traffic certainly starting to build up there on i95 northbound. We will stay on that story. The other story watching, the weather. Count on nbc 10 as we track storms moving into the area. We have two areas, one on top of us now. The main stuff is in the middle of the state. We will time that as it comes our way through the evening with the forecast coming up. The nbc 10 First Alert Weather Team is watching the radar. Were looking for a potential for storms and flooding over the next few hours. Lets get right back to Glenn Schwartz tracking the storms. Whats the latest . Some of the showers and storms are already in the philadelphia area. Some of that rain is coming down hard. Other areas are farther to the west. We have one strong cell right over i76 right near king of prussia and into blue bell, getting very heavy rain. So norristown about 4 35, blue bell at 4 46. That is one of the ones right in our area. Back to the west, theres a lot more lightning with that, a lot more in the way of heavier rain. Thats going to take until 6 00 to get to harrisburg. That will take a while. 8 00 around allentown. Closer to 10 00 in norristown. Between 10 00 and 11 00 in the philadelphia area. Remember, the slogan, turn around, dont drown. If you dont know how deep it is, turn around. That where most people have trouble. Serious trouble during floods. More on the forecast coming up. Good advice there. Check back on breaking news from sky force 10. They have turned that vehicle back up on i95. This is northeast philadelphia. Theyre trying to clear this accident scene. There is major backup on the interstate here as one of the lanz continues to be blocked. We will keep an eye on this. Look at backup as sky force 10 pulls out wide. Slow going if you are heading on 95 in the northbound lanes this afternoon. In other news, witnesses take the stand today in the philadelphia ticket fixing trial to explain how their traffic tickets disappeared. Six former Traffic Court judges on trial. Todays testimony focused on a businessowner who is also accused. Lu ann cahn is live with details for us. Reporter we heard from a couple of Witnesses Today who dont speak english about how their tickets went away. They spoke through translators and they all said, they went through this man. Can i talk to you about the testimony . Robert moy didnt want to talk to you today. Prosecutors say he advertised in chinese language advertisements that he would talk to anyone who wanted to make their philadelphia traffic ticket go away. Federal prosecutors say he had a special deal with a former traffic judge who also didnt want to be seen by us today. Several witnesses took the stand explaining through a translator they paid moy and didnt hear more about their ticket. Attorneys for the six former traffic judges say they never took money or gifts. Prosecutors argue, they still denied the city funds that would have been collected from thousands of tickets that were fixed for the powerful and connected. Sgli know thats what their claim is. We dont agree with it. Reporter the names of politicians are starting to come out in testimony. Court just broke for the day. Were going to gather more information and we will bring the latest to you at 6 00. Live at federal court, luann con, nbc 10 news. The no fly list is not anything with a judge. She ruled its unconstitutional. The judge said someone on the list would remain there for an indefinite period of time with no way to appeal. The government must now decide if it will agree and give people a bert way to appeal their inclusion on the list or try to find a way around the decision. The ruling comes after 13 people sued the attorney general and the fbi after they were not allowed to board a blame. The 911 museum is proving to be more popular than expected. More than 300,000 people have visited since it opened may 21. Thats 5 or 60,000 more people than projected. With an admission price of 24, organizers are pleased with the number of visitors. The smithsonian in washington, d. C. Says its attendance is down this year. Officials say there have been 2 million fewer visitors compared to the same time last year. They say the Government Shutdown and close urz due to Winter Weather are to blame. Last year they had about 300 million visitors. Big day for habitat for humanity in bucks county. They are celebrating two special events. Volunteers are building the 100th home. Ground breaking held on hawk road today. At the same time they are tick kicking off its 25th anniversary year. They allow bucks county families to realize their dreams of homeownership. Habitat is about building community. We engage the community in helping us build and our families become active, contributing members of their towns. A family of five will move from a twobedroom rental to a threebedroom home when the building is finished. Dont forget about the grant challenge for local nonprofits called 21st century solutions. A 50,000 grant as well as two 25,000 grants. We want to help good ideas turn into great ones. Applications are accepted until august 8. Go to nbc10. Com to apply. Bridges and failing roads. How bad is philadelphias aging infrastructure . The report card grading the city on everything from transportation to waste water. A new push to fight Childhood Obesity in pennsylvania. How many kids are overweight and what its going to take to tackle the growing health crisis. All new tonight on nbc news at 5 00. Getting set for shoppers. To the construction site being prepared as the next big destination. Teenagers from across philadelphia are getting a better handle on their future the they participated in a Conference Today called my life, my future. There were work shops, speakers, a concert and a dance contest. The focus was on becoming Financial Independent and selfempowering. New call to get our kids physically fit and eating healthy. That after lawmakers released a study on Childhood Obesity. It found up to 28 of our kids are overweight or obese. That leads to Heart Disease and diabetes. The report is recommending a board be created. It would be a partnership between public and private experts. The group should include academic and communitybased members. The report also calls for comprehensive coverage from pregnancy, infancy, School Nutrition and physical fit programs. Todays report reflects months of meetings, discussions and research and has come up with robust recommendations. It is our hope that the pennsylvania will take on the recommendations and implement them. The report says School Districts should look for partners like the ymca and other Community Groups to share resources. Cell phone searches . Privacy issue. Now the Supreme Court issues its ruling on whether police can search your cell phone without a warrant. What it means for you next at 4 00. All new tonight on nbc 10 news at 5 00, the country club that will become a campus. Future plans for this former local golf course and the people who will soon call this home. Here is a live look from sky force 10. You can see a heavy, heavy shower out there. We have a couple of them right in the philadelphia area. You go five miles and its dry. And then all of a sudden a downpour. One headed at the pennsylvania turnpike right now. Back with the forecast next. Here are some of the stories making headlines. Were tracking rain and storms moving through parts of the area right now. This right here is a live look at the weather moving in. We could see flooding in the area tonight. Delaware state trooper recovering after being shot. It happened after 7 00 this morning in magnolia, kent county. When he tried to pull over a suspect, he started firing shots. The suspect was shot and killed. He is 29yearold dennis hicks. Chris christy talking money at a town hall meeting today. He promised to veto a package of hikes being pushed to fill the budget gap. The two sides are locked in a show down. A budget must be adopted by june 30th. He wants to cut contributions to the pension system. The Supreme Court takes a stand for privacy in the digital interest. They ruled police may not look into your cell phone just because you are under arrest. Steve handlesman has reaction from washington. Reporter twothirds of americans have cell phones filled with private tempts, emails, contacts and photos. Going through someones phone, thats personal. Reporter until today, police who search everyone they arrest could also search their phone. Pry have a is the advocates objected. Because the police pull you over, doesnt mean they should have access to your life. Reporter every justice agreed. Modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for Many Americans the privacies of life. The decision means police can keep a phone, turn it off and shield it from erase your. Theres so many of your life in this device that the court is right to really set up some stiff protections. Any protection of our privacy is welcome. My gut reaction was, lets catch more bad guys. Reporter police agree their job got tougher. The justices know it. Privacy, comes as a cost. The court made clear searching someones smart phone is considered more of an invasion of privacy than searching their home. Im steve handlesman, nbc news, washington. You may want to check your weather app on the phone this evening as we go through the night and some of that heavier rain starts to come in. The storms continue to build in parts of the area and others will be moving in later causing localized flood threats. There has been flooding in State College and also in western pennsylvania today fmhisy. k d86itlpth. Ellein g tfi au py csect we ha r temo ndorthea blu avhiseeeoc loketisout. Om tennia gare th of goive sntoanias com thi i ers in. Th thaouwt itcoat atsle5 oi quin a ti. Ght,ide woatn caint itit 90 humotaye o ,rto wit tone n t deaksonea flundorhtw. S,tosalodalkme 50 year stiferel a knfnt. N be out at. Tr b00, port oniladin ce ai war b the uw r sowe. Il lin msh. 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